Award-Winning Cookies and Awards

I’ve been holding out on you. I apologize but it was necessary. I’ve been receiving awards that you don’t know about and I also have kept my go-to cookie recipe from you. You see I started this blog on a whim and I didn’t plan as well as I’m usually accustomed to doing. I am one of those people who make lists and cross things off and who add things to the list that are already completed just to have the satisfaction of crossing them off. But when I started blogging I had been thinking about it for a couple of months and one day I saw the Oreo-stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies from genius Jenny of Picky Palate. It was so inspiring that I felt compelled to share it with anybody who would listen. And so began In Katrina’s Kitchen.

It has been 4 months and I have grown to love my little blog and all of my blogging friends. I thought I would mostly be blogging for my mom and my 5 friends (I love you girls!) but I am overwhelmed every day when thousands of you stop by and let me know you’ve been reading my blog.

I’m enjoying it so much that I even decided to get my own domain – did you notice? It’s not even a big deal to anyone except maybe me. But now you can type in http://www.inkatrinaskitchen.com/ to find me (no “blogspot” necessary)! You may have to update your feed subscription if you get my posts through feedburner.

I am happy to have the support and friendship from other bloggers in the food blog community and I have been showered with peer awards from fellow bloggers. In fact they started coming in so quickly and often that I couldn’t possibly keep up!

Before you go I want to share the love and pass on this Award-Winning Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe. It comes to you out of love and tears, okay maybe not tears but still. I worked on this for many years – my poor husband endured many recipes that came up short. This is the one we all love now. Well, everyone except my brother-in-law because my recipe beat his in a little friendly competition along with about 30 other chocolate chip cookie recipes. He’s not bitter. And I don’t get out my trophy and proudly display it every time he comes over or anything. Ahem.

Congrats on everything, from the awards to the your own domain..how exiting! I am so proud of you, and I love your blog, love you because you are always so kind and sweet and your recipes..well you know what I think about them:)) If we were only closer I would be your friend #6:)))) Thank you for sharing these delicious cookies with us today, and good luck in the future!!!!

Congrats on your new domain, Katrina! It’s just a sign of all the wonderful things yet to come for you. 🙂 Thanks for stopping by my blog and leaving such a nice comment. I’m going to have to try these award winning choco chip cookies sometime… They look incredibly yummy!

Congrats on having your own domain! My kids and I love chocolate chip cookies, so I’m going to keep this recipe for next time. I don’t bake in general, but only exception is chocolate chip cookies because my kids love them and I wanted homemade at least. 🙂 Thanks for sharing this “award-winning” cookie recipe!

I just baked these today using your recipe – amazing! I have tried other recipes in the past, but none came out the way I wanted them too. When I bit into one of these, I exclaimed to my dad, “Finally… I made good cookies!”

Very excited to try these award winning cookies! Has it really only been 4 months?? Your blog is so amazing… you should be very proud! And congrats on getting your own domain. I know what you mean, it may seem small, but it feels great!

Congratulations on the blog. These look delicious, but I don’t understand how they’re different from the Toll House recipe, except for cooking at a slightly lower temperature and and an extra quarter cup of flour.(So probably more substantial and gooey both.)Did you do a lot of testing to arrive back at that classic recipe?

Hi Anonymous! You are right that it is similiar- I mean how different can a cookie recipe be, right? And believe me this is not my only cookie recipe, just the one that I finally had some luck with. As for your question about what makes it different I used a lower baking temp, baked for a shorter amount of time, more flour, and I used shortening instead of butter. These things all make a big difference (at least in my house!). The result is a soft, sturdy cookie that gets even better the next day! I still make the Tollhouse cookies at times too. Thanks for stopping by! 🙂 ♥- Katrina

congrats, Katrina, on how far you’ve come in SUCH a short amt of time…all the awards, the Babble award, the FG Gallery, your photography..seriously you’ve accomplished in 4 mos what takes many ppl 4 years, if EVER!

Congrats on those awards .. you totally deserve it! And these cookies looks so pretty. I am not much of a baker .. but i do make cookies at times which taste good but never looks nice .. like the ways your are looking ! 🙂

Wow… they really look delicious and congratulations to your award. These cookies look quite good but I would let them a little bit longer in the oven so they get a bit darker. 😛 But I guess thats just the individual opinion and u showed by that award that those are some good ones. thx 4 sharing

Coockie award – understand why, those cookies looks absolutely mouthwatering and moreish…. I have to make them one day. I´am a danish girl, who is new on the blogg – and I found your blogg through Newyorkerbyheart – and I really like your blogg – and I´ll be back…

These were really good cookies! My husband gave them a thumbs up. They don’t spread out very much. I made some right out of the cookie scoop and I also flattened some just to see how they would turn out….either way, they turned out fine. Regarding Amy who stated they were raw, just bake them a couple minutes longer and leave them on the pan to cook some more. 😉 Thanks for the recipe!